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Since my last rant about CounterStrike Global Offensive's new customizations, I have continued to play the game and experimented with Steam Marketplace. The Marketplace is a place for you to sell your digital goods that you've earned on Steam. These include of course the latest custom skins and crates from CounterStrike Global Offensive, but also the whole host of trading cards that Steam brought in with their Trading Card system. That means that most major games have some form of tradeable goods.
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CounterStrike Global Offensive is getting its share of wacky items and customization. Valve has been pushing these drops as incentives to play more. While it used to be limited to Valve games such as Team Fortress 2, Valve has helped spread their model to many other major games with the use of Steam Trading Cards. It was fun for other games, to get a set of cards as you play, it seems out of place in CS:GO.

If you've ever considered a life as a digital artist, you've most certainly checked out some Wacom tablets. These boards or displays pair up with special pens to provide a digital facsimile to the traditional pen and paper. The main difference between these digital drawing tablets and just a regular tablet and touch screen is their measurement of pen sensitivity, and in pricier drawing tablets; pen angle and rotation. All of these inputs are used by most drawing programs to vary the size, opacity
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Blackberry, the renamed Research in Motion, used to have a good 50% share of the smartphone market. Coming from its lofty heights as a global technology leader, its market share dwindled down to the miserable 2.9% it holds now, and it continues to decrease. Most of it can be attributed to terrible management in the past few years, where they chose to do nothing while competitors innovated, but more recently, they seem to be suffering from absolutely terrible press.

I caught the Pokemon fever yesterday at the event, and was poking around looking at Pokemon X and Y news while playing Pokemon Showdown. There are some great memories there of the endless hours I spent as a child playing Pokemon Red and Blue. I guess I miss the excitement of opening a pack of cards and pulling out a shiny Charizard card or catching the 40th Abra that appeared since the rest teleported away.